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A review by nessochist
The Hidden Goddess by M.K. Hobson
3.0
3.5 stars. Oh you tricky little book! Making me think all the fun of Native Star was stubbornly refusing to show up in the sequel. Beware: the first half of The Hidden Goddess is pure hair-pulling frustration--full of interrupted scenes, unfinished sentences and forced separation between important characters. Everyone is confused, no one is sharing information and the reader is harshly weaned off of Native Star's sugar high.
To me, a lot of what made Native Star so fun was Emily and Stanton's odd couple, road trip adventures. In comparison, Stanton has about 10 pages of screen time in the first 200 pages of Hidden Goddess. It was driving me insane. I feared the moral of the story was "Fall in love, get engaged and never have fun again." And although as much as I think the first half of the book (and the plot as a whole) would have benefited by a few more Emily/Stanton Native Star style scenes, the second half more than made up for all the frustrations. Never fear, the adventure, awesomeness and oh, the angst shows up to save the day.
I loved Emily throughout. Even when she was confused (I hear you, sister) she was never stupid. Full disclosure: I was smiling like an idiot the entire last few chapters.
To me, a lot of what made Native Star so fun was Emily and Stanton's odd couple, road trip adventures. In comparison, Stanton has about 10 pages of screen time in the first 200 pages of Hidden Goddess. It was driving me insane. I feared the moral of the story was "Fall in love, get engaged and never have fun again." And although as much as I think the first half of the book (and the plot as a whole) would have benefited by a few more Emily/Stanton Native Star style scenes, the second half more than made up for all the frustrations. Never fear, the adventure, awesomeness and oh, the angst shows up to save the day.
I loved Emily throughout. Even when she was confused (I hear you, sister) she was never stupid. Full disclosure: I was smiling like an idiot the entire last few chapters.